Entries Tagged as ‘Olympics’

August 19, 2008

Erm, there were four other swimmers besides Tao Li in the Singapore squad too, you know?

All our country’s newspapers were filled today with stories and photographs of swimming Tao Li returning from her triumphant Beijing Olympics campaign yesterday morning. And yes, she deserves the limelight after her extraordinary and history-making performances in the pool.
 
She not only became the first Singaporean swimmer to qualify for an Olympic swimming final -100m butterfly [...]

August 17, 2008

Singapore loses 0-3 to China but wins first Olympic medal in 48 years

Singapore finally laid its hands tonight on the Olympic medal that it had been waiting to win for 48 years.
Our national women’s table tennis team had virtually assured itself of the silver medal at the very least when it defeated South Korea 3-2 in the semi-finals on Friday.
Tonight, after waiting for 48 hours, they finally [...]

August 15, 2008

Who is Feng Tianwei? Here’s some info on her…

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I found many search efforts on this blog to find out who Feng Tianwei is soon after she won the match that helped Singapore to beat South Korea 3-2 in the Beijing Olympics women’s table tennis team semi-final. The result virtually assures a silver medal for Singapore at the very least, and breaks our country’s 48-year [...]